Finaps Meetup
Digital accessibility & SmartDocuments in Mendix
🗓️ Wednesday, December 2, 2026
18:00 Walk-in and networking
19:00 WCAG by Anne Wilbrink
19:30 SmartDocuments by Hillary Bustamante
20:00 Drinks and networking
📍 Location
Finaps Offices
10 Emmaplein, Amsterdam
⚠️ Interesting for
Mendix developers, both newer and experienced
Is your Mendix app really usable for everyone?
And does your document generation actually do what you expect? Join us for an evening of lessons learned the practical way. Anne and Hillary take you behind the scenes of two topics that look simple on paper and get interesting in real projects: digital accessibility and document generation in Mendix. Our speakers share what they learned in real projects, including the bumps along the way, and how they solved them.
Part 1 | 19:00
WCAG by Anne Wilbrink
Everyone should be able to use digital applications, including people with a visual, hearing, motor or cognitive disability. That is the idea behind WCAG, the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, the international guidelines for web accessibility. For government apps and other applications with a public function, meeting them is not optional but a legal requirement. So if you build these apps in Mendix, accessibility has to be part of your build from day one.
In this session we cover the rules that matter most, and how we at Finaps apply them in our Mendix apps, from design choices to the widgets we use.
Part 2 | 19:30
SmartDocuments by Hillary Bustamante
Generating documents is a common requirement in Mendix projects, but maintaining complex layouts, branding and business rules inside your application quickly becomes challenging. SmartDocuments separates document creation from application development, so templates are managed independently while your application focuses on business logic and data. Setting up templates is no longer the hard part (if you know, you know). Building a reliable and scalable document generation process around them is.
Hillary takes you behind the scenes of the technical integration between Mendix and SmartDocuments: how to set it up, map data and generate documents directly from your application. Plus the lessons we learned along the way, from configuration challenges and data mapping complexities to performance bottlenecks that only emerge at scale.
Practical information
Expect a practical, technical evening with real project experience, honest stories and actionable insights you can apply in your next sprint.
Date: Wednesday, December 2, 2026
Time: Walk-in from 18:00, program starts at 19:00
Location: Finaps office, Emmaplein 10, Amsterdam
Accessibility: The office is only accessible by stairs
This is an in-person event, so make sure to reserve your spot.
